Tags: Beatles

• Brotherly Love The Kongos’ musical dynasty

  The Kongo’s musical dynasty takes root in Scottsdale, Arizona.

• The Beach Boys: The Definitive Diary of America’s Greatest Band on Stage and in the Studio

  Any Beach Boy fan knows, you gotta argue hard to make a case that the Boys ever were “America’s Greatest Band.” More like five Rodney Dangerfields in candy striped shirts. The Beach Boys got no respect; the media and their record label always found subtle ways to remind the band they were “America’s Answer to the Beatles.”

• When Paul Met Gerry

  What John Lennon had never been introduced to Paul McCartney on that fateful day in 1956? Things might not have turned out so fab. Without John, Paul’s ambitious, eager-to-please quality and predisposition to middle-of-the-road standards would’ve gravitated him toward the similarly minded Gerry and the Pacemakers.